Upholstery pad



es. 1,1925. 565,267 DEL ROY F. FOWLER UPHOLSTERY PAD Filed May 12, 1924 Patented Dec. 15, 1925.

DEL ROY I. FOWLER, MELROSE PARK, PENNSYLVANIA.

v UPEOLBTERY PAD.

Applieatien filed Kay 12, 1924. Serial No. 712,815.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEL ROYF. FOWLER,

a citizen ofthe United States of America,

and resident of Melrose Park, county of i Montgomery, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Upholstery Pads, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

My invention relates to upholstery .pads such as are used extensively in motor car upholstery as pads overlying a backing of helical'springs or as padding. overlying a box spring mattress. As heretofore constructed, such pads have been made up of a felted mass of fibre, cotton and curled hair being very commonly used and they have lacked in resilience and also in use tend to and to become lumpy and uneven.

The object of my invention-is to provide a pad of great resilience and permanence of form under conditions of use and I have discovered that such a pad can be made by. building up a pad of a series of diagonally disposed thin veils, each veil being made up of long wavy sisal fibre dry carded so as not to diminish the resilience of the wav fibre but. simply to give ,the fibre of the carderl veil a general uniformity of direction. The fibres of the su erimposed veils run diagonally to each ot er but are not fitted together and the pad so formed is; applied to or built up upon a fabric backing,

generally of burla or canvas, and secured to\ the backing and t rows of stitches.

Commercial sisal fibre, after dry carding, I have found to average about four inches in length and this material when dry carded into veils, is admirably fitted for use in making up my pads, because I believe so much of the fibre is longer than the diameter of the bell of the springs. Other fibre may be mixed with the dry carded sisal to cheapen the pad but I believe that for the best re sults a pad made up as described of sisal fibre alone is the very best in use.-

sink into the spaces in and between springs e layers held together by ters Patent',,is:

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a rather dia rammatic view of a thin veil of dry car ed, long, wavy sisal fibre such as I use in building up my p Figure 2 is a plan view of a fabric backing with one such veil applied in diagonal la ping folds upon it, and

igure 3 is a cross section of a completed and stitched pad.

. A is the fabric backing of the pad. B the thin veil of dry carded long and wavy sisal fibre, the fibres of which veil lay in general- 131 the same direction but lap each other by reason of their wavy nature. At B, B2, B3, I have shown how the veil is applied to the backing and it will be understood that successi've veils are so applied in layers and sothat thefibres of successive layers lie diagonally upon each other.

At C -I have shown the completed ad stitched to the-backing byrows of stitc es,

indicated at D, D, etc. The distinctive features of my new padding are that neither in the fibres making up a carded veil nor in the fibres of the superimposed veils is there any felting together of the fibres of the pads, or any flattening out of the natural -waves of the sisal fibre, so that in the pad I the resilience of each com onent fibre is fully availed of and a pad 0 great and per-" manent'resilience provided which strongly resists all forces tending to permanently eform it.

Having now described my invention, what fibre, said veils being successively superposed upon each other with the fibres of successive layers crossing each other at an angle so as to form a springy unfelted pad and saidpad being stitched to the backing.

DEL ROY F. FOWLER. 

